What To Do About Poverty

What to Do about Poverty
by Corbin M. Wright


A SOLUTION FOR EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS AS WORK TENDS TO DISAPPEAR

I know that with globalization the future looks brighter and
brighter for many people: But will many people also be left
behind in this expanding economy?
I know that with technology
expanding as it is, many of the jobs that required more human
effort are disappearing while other types of jobs that involve
more technical expertise are being created. Now do the jobs
created by this expanding technology compensate for the loss of
jobs in the non-tech sector, considering also the expanding
population around the world? Two problems arise. One is that
those who lose theirs jobs need more education, assuming they
can be retrained, to attain those jobs that are being created by
this new technology, and this new technology is expanding at
such an accelerated pace that I wonder whether this reeducation
can really keep up with this technological expansion. And
second, if one can find employment or if there are no ethnic
conflicts or natural disasters to interfere with job
opportunities, the non-tech sector's remuneration level would
probably be lowered because of its new supporting service
function to a point whereby many would need a second or third
job to make livable ends meet. Therefore, you'll have those
growing with globalization while I believe there will be many
who will not be able to keep up within this movement. What can
be done about this?

To provide more employment for individuals, you could
re-engineer the workweek by providing shorter hours for those
already working, thus allowing more workers to be employed to
keep up with the productivity. Financially you could spread the
profitability of the enterprise more evenly between the workers
and management so everyone could then have a livable standard of
remuneration. Of course in evening out the remuneration levels,
one might feel the motivating factor for improving productivity
would lessen. But perhaps the motivating factor for this should
be something else other than profit, such as job significance.
This approach could also lessen excessive stress that can
accumulate on the job. Tips on how one can be more frugal with
ones expenses, as expressed in my report on How to become
Financially Independent, can also be practiced to aid one in
developing a more livable standard of life.

If by chance you might not be able to find a job no matter how
hard you try you should not become embarrassed by this situation
because this is how life oftentimes is and many are probably in
the same boat. But the job one should eventually get, if he or
she gets one, should be one whereby the employee finds societal
significance in his or her employment, otherwise the motivation
for working would tend to be quite unfulfilling and lead to much
more restlessness and uncreativity in his or her job. An answer
to this dilemma could be a procedure, which is set up whereby
some financially well-off families could adopt some families
that are not so financially well off. And this policy should be
considered on a worldwide basis, sometimes crossing national
boundaries, but always with an accountability procedure in
place. Of course, this process could be either temporary or
permanent depending upon the state of the adoptee's employment
situation. In doing this though, the cost would have to be the
loss of much of the adoptee´s privacy, and much of the time
needed by the adoptors to supervise the distribution of
financial aid to the adoptees in an accountable fashion. But
since work is the vehicle by which individuals do develop a
self-worth, however, the adoptees could engage in volunteer work
that they find meaningful, and perhaps this could eventually
lead them to specific job opportunities, while the adoptors are
financially supporting them. If a procedure like this is not
adopted, much talent is going to be lost to society, because
those individuals struggling financially will be spending all of
their time trying to survive, which sometimes can develop into
some limited creativity, but not to the extent that creativity
could be developed if you didn't have to struggle exclusively
just to survive. If this plan can not be adopted, than
governments would have to be the adoptors and give a guaranteed
livable wage to everyone who hasn't one, because work for pay as
we know it will continue to be less and less. And the more
political stability you have around the world, the more
effective this program can be.

Poverty, however, is not only Material Poverty, but more
importantly, Spiritual Poverty as well.






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